#don juan triumphant

[operafantomet]

AMINTA + ROSE

Sae Yamamoto (?), Yokohama

Claudia Cota, Buenos Aires

Lana English, Cape Town or Pretoria

Sarah Brightman, West End

Maree Johnson, Sydney

Paige Blankson, West End revival

Danielle Everett, Australian Tour

Danielle Everett, Australian Tour

Holly-Anne Hull, UK Tour Revival

Amy Manford, Restaged Aussie Tour

Detail photo, Broadway

Detail photo, West End

Detail photo, World Tour

Anouk van Laake, West End revival

Holly-Anne Hull, West End revival

Lucy St Louis, West End revival

Amy Manford, Restaged Aussie Tour

Song Eun Hye, Daegu

(original design by Maria Bjørnson)

#aminta #don juan triumphant #phantom of the opera #christine daae #rose in her hair #not tagging them all

[littleeliza-lotte]

Kanisha Marie Feliciano (x)

#slayed too hard I fear #Kanisha marie Feliciano #phantom of the opera #christine daae #POTO Broadway #the majestic theater #past the point of no return #aminta #don juan triumphant

[queerolddad]

ok but

what was the intended conclusion of Don Juan Triumphant?

Because, based only on the context of Point of No Return, there are only two options:

1. my man didn’t think that far ahead (likely)

Or

2. he really thought he and Christine were gonna raw dog it right there in front of God and everyone (very likely)

Which also begs the question — which act are they in? Of how many? Because I dunno what’s funnier, them fucking and then “goodnight everyone hope you enjoyed the show” or “it’s intermission!!! go grab yourself some chocolate covered raisins”

#phantom of the opera #poto #poto shitpost #Don Juan triumphant #my headcanons #poto headcanons #my man is so stupid I love him

[madreemeritus]

Don Juan Triumphant — An analysis of Erik's masterpiece

Warning: i don't speak French and i don't have english editions of PotO, only Portuguese, so i will translate it directly from my text

Gaston Leroux's novel narrates the fact that Erik was producing an Opera of his own with the theme "Don Juan Triumphant". Unfortunately, we never hear it because it's a book, but a few adaptations brought his work to live with different interpretations.

Let's analyze what Leroux intented to write with Erik's character.

Don Juan is a Spanish archetype of a lascivious and libertine man, created by Tirso de Molina, a poet and religious playwright of the Middle Ages. His character was supposed to be an antagonist of what society considered to be moral and pure at that time. And as any other story, it has its adaptations.

Don Giovanni (the same as Don Juan) is the work of Mozart (composer) and Lorenzo Da Ponte (writer), where Don Giovanni is a scoundrel who seduces and abandons women; one of his victims has his father murdered by Don Giovanni after he tried to prevent the seduction. The spirit of the Commander (Donna Anna's father murdered by D. Giovanni) returns in the form of a statue and drags the protagonist to hell with the help of demons.

Erik, after Christine asks him to play Don Juan Triumphant, says: "Never ask me that. This Don Juan was not composed for the libretto of a Lorenzo Da Ponte, inspired by wine, by furtive loves and by vices finally punished by God. I can play Mozart if I so wish, which will bring beautiful tears to your eyes and inspire you with frank reflections. But my Don Juan burns, Christine, and not because he has been hit by heavenly fire!" (...) "You see, Christine, there is a song so terrible that it consumes all who approach it. You haven't reached it yet, and that's good, because you would lose your soft colors and they wouldn't recognize you anymore on your return to Paris" (...)

Erik says that his Don Juan "burns" and that Christine was in no condition to understand the somber depths of his masterpiece. He refuses to play Don Juan at first (although he is willing to play other Mozart pieces), but after being unmasked, he plays in a form of escapism. Christine is enthralled by the terrible, somber performance. Erik's Don Juan is a reflection of the pain he feels.

He apparently has no interest in writing a story like Don Giovanni, possibly an inspiration for him is Lord Byron's version, where Don Juan is neither a seducer nor a villain: but a victim of a cruel and false love of a woman. Erik says that it took him years to finish his work, as if each event in his life influenced the work more. He also says that, when finishing Don Juan Triumphant, he would die and be buried along with the scores: he changes his mind when he falls in love with Christine.

Don Juan is an archetype that contradicts everything Erik is and believes. Erik scares women by his ugliness / Don Juan seduces and conquers them all. Erik wants true love / Don Juan wants to deceive women in exchange for sex. Don Juan is a handsome, seductive man who is admired by people / Erik was born deformed and was abused, humiliated and rejected by (almost) everyone he met. Erik would probably change the character of Don Juan just as Lord Byron changed it according to his own life experience. That's why he is "Don Juan Triumphant", rather than the protagonist's defeat.

Christine's words after hearing Don Juan Triumphant: "His Don Juan Triumphant (for there was no longer any doubt that he had rushed his masterpiece to forget the horror of the present minute) appeared to me only one long, frightening, magnificent sob, where poor Erik had deposited all his misery." (...) "I remembered the notebook with red notes and easily imagined that that song had been written in blood. It guided me through all the details of martyrdom; it made me enter all the corners of the abyss, the inhabited abyss by the ugly man; it showed me Erik atrociously banging his poor, ugly head against the funereal walls of hell, where he had taken refuge so as not to frighten human eyes any longer, where Pain was deified, and then, the sounds that saw from the abyss and suddenly grouped together in a prodigious and threatening flight. the world. I understood that the work was finally done and that Ugliness, borne on the Wings of Love, had dared to look Beauty in the face!" (...)

For me, Erik's Don Juan is an expression of his life and inner demons. The rejection, the suffering, the pain, the hate, the jealousy, and at the same time, the love, the desire and the will to be loved like any other human being. Erik is as much compared with Death as with Sexuality. This duality would be expressed in his work. And since the work is Triumphant, in the end he would find the love and happiness he longed for.

Adaptations

In my opinion, Andrew Loyd Webber's "Don Juan Triumphant" doesn't make much sense because it only explores a carnal scandal between Don Juan and Aminta. It looks like the same character as Tirso de Molina and Lorenzo Da Ponte, not the alternative — painful and suffering — version of Erik. There is no tragedy, no hellfire and no suffering. It just seems like an empty work made to shock the society of the 19th century. "Oh but it's Erik's self insert", the original work was clearly an escapism, a reflection of his life, a form of expression of the pain he felt. It's not that Erik's work in the book doesn't explore the theme of sexuality, but that's not all. It's not just a horny show between Erik and Christine. Especially because it gives off a weird vibe that Erik just wanted sex with her, and that's a lie. I do love The Point of No Return by its beautiful melody and my E/C bullshit that likes some horny fanfiction.

I adore, however, the 1925s (or 1929s rebuilt) "Don Juan". Not only because it's the main theme scored by Gabriel Thibaudeau, but also because this specifically is the unmasking scene and it captures everything that I imagined as Leroux's description. The pain, the passion, the tragedy, is all there. Lon Chaney's Erik says to Christine that since the first time he saw her, he was inspired to write such a magnificent piece of music. Not 20 years writing it as originally, but more a romantic inspiration coming from his heart. This adaptation, to be fair, is my favorite.

And another version which I apreciate a lot is the 1989 slasher movie with Robert Englund. It's such a sublime song that remarks the exact 'Dark Romance' vibes of E/C relantionship. Obviously is not the best adaptation, actually it has little to do with the original work as Christine is a time traveler, Erik is a murderous psychopath villain and the story goes totally into a supernatural horror. But if you put in your mind that PotO and A Nightmare On Elm Street were merely an inspiration to a slasher/supernatural movie, it's actually an interesting experience.

So in conclusion, this was my analysis of the mysterious Don Juan Triumphant. Feel free to disagree or point out new things in the comments 🙏🏽❤️

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[redacted-metallum]

Joke approximately three people will get

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[night-unfurls-its-splendour]

What I love about Howard McGillin's phantom is that when they join hands during Aminta's part in PONR, he yoinks her hands down to his chest

#howard mcgillin #elizabeth loyacano #rebecca pitcher #ponr #point of no return #don juan triumphant #aminta #christine x erik #erik x christine #erik/christine #e/c #poto e/c #eristine

[haredjarris]

#phantom of the opera #poto #poto memes #poto musical #don juan triumphant #erik the phantom #past the point of no return #christine daaé #christine daae

[kimwexlers-brownhair]

Phantom of the Opera where everything's the same except instead of Don Juan Triumphant, Erik writes The Nightman Cometh.

#phantom of the opera #poto #iasip #it's always sunny in philadelphia #the nightman cometh #don juan triumphant #charlie kelly #erik #the phantom of the opera

[makeitpink57]

i wish don juan triumphant was a real show tbh

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[0alexlikestodraw0]

Male wife energy

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[winter2468]

Don Juan Triumphant is described as “one long, awful, magnificent sob... it expressed every emotion, every suffering of which mankind is capable.”

I think it often gets overlooked that Erik’s great masterwork is described as inescapably sad. He compares himself to Don Juan but the Don Juan story he wrote is a tragedy.

#this is not a phantom of the opera quote #erik #leroux #book #phantom of the opera #don juan triumphant

[operafantomet]

HMT terrace photos of the Aminta costume, though!

Ashleigh Fleming, c. 2013

Katy Treharne, c. 2012

Claire Doyle, c. 2012

Celinde Schoenmaker, c. 2016

Anna O’Byrne, c. 2012

Lucy St Louis, c. 2022

Emmi Christensson, c. 2016

Katie Hall, c. 2011

Lucy St Louis, c. 2022

(photos by dressers Chris Brown and Melaine Gowie)

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[littleeliza-lotte]

Holy FUCK

#the bid has only been open like a day imagine it gets even higher 😭 #What job does that person have and where can I apply #phantom of the opera #christine daae #POTO Broadway #aminta #don juan triumphant

[thescarleteagle]

#phantom of the opera #past the point of no return #pono #erik #christine daae #don Juan triumphant

[occult-turtle]

I made a redesign of The Phantom's red death look. I've always loved the extravagance of the stage costumes, but I thought they always ruined his silhouette, and I like how the movie costume looks but there was not enough flair. So here is my version. I fully intend to actually make this costume. It's probably gonna take a year or so because I plan to hand bead and hand sew some portions. Let me know what you guys think. 💚🌹

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[cookiepianos]

Look at this AMAZING commission that @casuallystinky did for me!! Check out his work, he does fantastic lifelike art like this and anthro!

#phantom of the opera #poto #point of no return #erik #don juan triumphant #AWESOME ART